December 2011
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Why asylum seekers could be banned from TV →
“Censorship is advertising paid by the government.”
- Federico Fellini
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There Are Realistic Alternatives →
by Gene Sharp
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CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS →
1949–2011
Graydon Carter remembers the Vanity Faircontributing editor—a brilliant wit, matchless rhetorician, and masterful critic.
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An Australian Abroad →
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Request for Comment: SOPA and a strike →
A few months ago, the Italian Wikipedia community made a decision to blank all of Italian Wikipedia for a short period in order to protest a law which would infringe on their editorial independence. The Italian Parliament backed down immediately. As Wikipedians may or may not be aware, a much worse law going under the misleading title of “Stop Online Piracy Act’ is working its way...
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William Tyndale →
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All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace →
Episode 1 - Love and Power
Episode 2 - The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts
Episode 3 - The Monkey In The Machine and the Machine in the Monkey
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WikiLeaks: The Spyfiles →
Mass interception of entire populations is not only a reality, it is a secret new industry spanning 25 countries
It sounds like something out of Hollywood, but as of today, mass interception systems, built by Western intelligence contractors, including for ’political opponents’ are a reality. Today WikiLeaks began releasing a database of hundreds of documents from as many as 160 intelligence...